Ele Keats

Ele Keats (born Elemy Georgescu; August 24, 1973) is an American television, film and stage actress, model, and jewelry designer. Keats's most notable roles were in the Disney musical drama film Newsies, Garry Marshall's Frankie and Johnny, the biographical survival drama Alive, Steven Soderbergh's Eros and the horror film Insidious: Chapter 3. She has also appeared in more than one hundred national TV commercials. Acting career Born in Paris, France, to copywriter Sacha Georgescu (of Romanian descent) and Ford model Jan McGuire, Keats was raised in New York City, Europe and Los Angeles. She began her professional career as a young model, being featured in publications such as American Baby, Ladies' Home Journal & Teen Magazine. After moving to Los Angeles she launched her acting career at fifteen, being featured in a Michael Jackson Pepsi commercial and in 1988 she appeared in LL Cool J's Going Back to Cali music video, directed by Ric Menello. Quickly establishing herself as a familiar face on television, Keats has appeared in more than one hundred TV commercials, including the 1990 Levi's jeans beach ad.